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PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed documents from Oregon's health exchange agency as part of a grand jury investigation into how the state used federal money to set up the now-failed health insurance exchange, state officials said on Tuesday. The Oregon Health Authority and Cover Oregon have received subpoenas from federal prosecutors asking for everything from power points, outlines and notes to emails between former state employees who left amid the controversial implosion of the state exchange.

PORTLAND (Reuters) - Activists seeking a tighter rein on genetically modified foods said on Thursday they planned to push ahead with a signature-gathering campaign to force a measure onto the ballot in left-leaning Oregon to require labeling on such products. Oregon Right to Know said it was gathering signatures to get its measure on the November ballot as the fight over genetically modified food heats up in Oregon, where voters in one county will decide next week whether to ban modified plants entirely.

By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - An Oregon wolf which became the subject of a documentary after making a monumental trek from Oregon to California and back may have finally found what heâs been searching for: love.Â Oregon wildlife officials said on Tuesday they believe the gray wolf, dubbed OR 7 because he was the seventh wolf collared for tracking in 2011, may have found a mate. If the pair have pups, it would be the first known wolf breeding in the Oregon Cascades since the early 20th century.Â OR 7 became well known when he traipsed into California in December 2011, making him the first known wild wolf in the state since 1924.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A climber is thought to have fallen roughly 700 to 800 feet to his death from the top of Oregon's Mt. Hood on Tuesday as another stunned climber looked on, the Hood River sheriff's office said, in the first such fatality this year. The fall was reported to authorities at about 8 a.m. local time by the other climber, who lost sight of the man after the fall in the Eliot Glacier area of the mountain. The dead man, identified by the sheriff's office as a Catholic priest from New Jersey, was later spotted at about the 10,500-foot level of the mountain and was seen by both a fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter, but they saw no sign of life.

By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Three University of Oregon basketball players who were accused of rape have been dropped from the team despite a decision by prosecutors not to charge them criminally, the school's president said on Friday. Damyean Dotson and Dominic Artis, both 19, and Brandon Austin, 18, were suspended amid a police investigation of accusations that they sexually assaulted a female student on March 8 at an off-campus party and other locations in Eugene, Oregon.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber on Monday performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a woman suffering from cardiac arrest, possibly saving the ailing and unconscious woman's life, authorities said on Tuesday. Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, was on his way to dinner when he spotted a man attempting to revive a woman sprawled on the ground near the roadway in downtown Portland and asked his driver to pull over, said Nkenge Harmon Johnson, Kitzhaber's communications director.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Oregon State Police searched on Monday for a prison inmate who slipped away the night before from the Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, marking the second escape from an Oregon detention center in less than a week, prison officials said. Clinton Orvill Swearingen II, 31, serving time for theft and burglary, was discovered missing from the Deer Ridge facility near the town of Madras in central Oregon, at about 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, corrections officials said.

PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - A naked man who had been running and doing push-ups in a Portland street was struck by a car and killed early on Sunday, police said. Portland police said they received two phone calls about the man in a street in an industrial area of north Portland but the man was killed before they arrived at the scene. A third call said a car had hit the man, police said in a statement. "The driver that struck the man remained at the scene and was cooperative," the statement said.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An Oregon sex offender who was just days from being released escaped a Portland prison but was quickly captured at a local fast food restaurant, and was due to be arraigned on additional charges on Thursday, police said. Matthew Joseph Medlin, 30, climbed a fence and escaped from the Columbia River Correctional Institution on Wednesday afternoon, just days before his scheduled May 6 release date, Portland police said. Portland police captured Medlin, who was serving time for burglary, sex abuse and assault, late on Wednesday evening at a Portland Jack in the Box restaurant after a corrections officer transporting another inmate spotted him nearby.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Forensic experts are close to finding out if a skeleton found with gunshot damage to the skull belongs to an Oregon marshal whose 1926 disappearance remains one of the country's oldest unsolved missing persons cases, officials said on Wednesday. Oregon officials are seeking DNA samples from potential relatives of Marvin Clark, a former Linnton town marshal who disappeared from Tigard, Oregon, when he went to see his physician in Portland and never returned.